Other distros (was RE: Waxing Philosophical)

[Richard Irving]

Multiple versions of GLIBC is NOT a good thing..


  Many other packages, it isn't much of an issue...
just sloppy admin...


  GLIBC is , however, non-trivial.


  You could say it is the "Belly Button everything
else contemplates......."

   (IE: The Center of the Nautilus )


  BTW: It is confirmed, this distro will NOT work
on a Dual Processor 5300 (1200 in disguise - 21164a Procs)
with a 6.0 version of the SRM/ARC.

   I haven't had time to troubleshoot the cause,
maybe tonight....




Donsbach, Jeff wrote:
> Allen Ziegenfus [listmail at allenz.net] wrote:
> 
>>It doesn't seem like constantly updating your packages results in
> 
> stability. 
> 
> But, the point is your don't NEED to constantly upgrade. Sure, there
> might be reasons why you want to upgrade certain packages, such as for
> new features, or for security fixes which every distro has. But if what
> you have works for you, why bother upgrading?
> 
> I am not sure about glic and having multiple versions of that on the
> system (haven't really looked), but I know Gentoo has a way to have
> multiple versions of applications installed. For instance, perl or
> python will commonly have multiple versions installed because of
> dependencies on certain versions which other packages have.
> 
> Jeff D
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